My ELT Blog

  Hello, my dear readers. A ctually, I'm a little sad writing this post because I may not share a post here for a long time. As you know, I have been sharing with you the materials I have learned and created here for a long time through the tasks assigned to me. I will no longer be able to be active on this account every week due to the end of my class, but who knows, maybe one day I will share with you the materials I have learned again.  It was really important for me to learn and produce something new in this lesson. Even though this semester was an online semester, I continued to learn in an interactive way thanks to this course and I felt that I was improving. I think the most difficult thing I had in the lesson was to prepare materials using premium applications because in some applications it was difficult to make our material better quality without using premium.  In short, I want to thank my Instructor Gökçe Kurt Tiftik because I learned a lot from her and she ma...

Hi, my dear readers. Our new teaching material is WebQuest. We can describe WebQuest as an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. Let me introduce our WebQuest because it will be more understandable for you. I worked with my friend Melisa. We chose the old times unit as the subject of this material. And we asked the students to choose a god or goddess from ancient Greece and make a poster about her. And we asked the students to choose a god or goddess from ancient Greece, research the god they chose from the link we gave them, and create a poster about him. At first, we had difficulty preparing this material, but then we realized that it was not so difficult by analyzing the samples. Since the topic we chose was quite interesting, we really struggled while preparing the fiction and parts of the task. In our opinion, it was an attractive teaching material again, and I hope you will like it too. Nice week to all guy...

Hi, my dear readers. Let’s meet our new teaching material. It is an augmented /virtual reality integrated material. And I think this is the coolest one. Now, let me explain to you why. thanks to this material, students can observe the content in a virtual way or go on virtual tours. And so their learning experience becomes more interactive. I think the fact that it is virtual material and students can make virtual tours makes this material more interesting for students. And according to my lesson, my friend Melisa Kamacı and I prepared an augmented reality integrated teaching material this week. I can say that preparing this material was the most enjoyable among the materials I prepared. Since there are not many such materials used in schools, I think students will have fun using them as well. In this material, we have chosen 3 tourist buildings located in London. One is British Museum, the other one is London Eye and the last one is Tower Bridge. We are sure that the students will lik...

Hi, my dear readers. I hope that you are all well. In this post, I will tell you about what a flipped classroom is, its advantages and disadvantages, and the flipped teaching video I have prepared with my friend. Let's find out what a flipped classroom is. A flipped classroom is a type of blended learning. And in this approach, students are introduced to the lesson's content at home and practice this content at school. Commonly, in this approach, students watch pre-recorded videos and then they answer the questions of the teacher and practice the content with some background knowledge that they gain at home through pre-recorded video. And of course, as with any learning approach, this approach has advantages and disadvantages. For example, flipped approach improves students’ learning motivation, and allows students more time to solve problems individually and etc. But besides these advantages, flipped classroom requires students to have access o technology and this can be a cha...

Hi, my dear readers. I hope you all well.:) I prepared a corpus-based material this week with my friend Melisa. Corpus system means a collection of linguistic data. Like words, phrases or synoyms. And there are lots of corpus sites in internet. But we choose ‘’Skell’’ site with my friend because we thought that it would be less complicated for our students. Our students will understand the difference between advice and advise by using our material.  And also this site involves different part about words. So it will be easier for our students to undertsand the difference between these two words we have chosen. In other words, our students will be able to find not only the use of the word they are searching for in different sentences, but also words close to that searched word.  To tell the truth, it was not easy for us to prepare this material. Because we hadn't prepared this kind of material before, we hadn't even seen it. That's why preparing this material felt very confus...

Hello, my dear readers. As you can understand from my post’s heading, I prepared a timeline about the history of technology in language learning. It is not a very detailed timeline, but it contains the most important events on the dates that have been written. We are in the years when technological development is very fast. New content and programs are constantly being produced, and as they are integrated into education, education becomes more easily accessible.   I can say that I have never had any difficulties preparing the timeline. Because I already have a lot of fun producing this kind of content. I hope you like my timeline. Nice week to all.     Here is my timeline and I used Canva for preparing this.  

Hiii, my all dear readers. I know it's been a long time and you missed my posts.:) As we all know, universities have switched to online education due to the disasters experienced by our country,almost since the arrival of the year 2023. And Material Design in English Language Teaching is one of the courses i have taken in this term. I will continue my blog with posts containing the materials I made in this course and the writings I wrote about them. I have no doubt that you will like the posts and materials I have published. Stay tuned.